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Km ס390,000 sq. miles. 7 Territorial Extent of the Byzantine Empire. : Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 8. By 750 another major loss occurred, as the Arabs conquered a large part of Byzantine territory. But this second decline was made good by 1050, when after many reconquests the empire was scarcely smaller than it had been in 300 or 620, and slightly larger than it had been in 450. Then came another severe decline, caused by losses to the Seljuk Turks. Interrupted by a partial recovery, this decline lasted until 1204, when Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade, and the provinces that remained under Greek rule were divided among several successor states.
In particular, the core of a continuous empire can effectively counter threats by using internal lines of communication. 38 Second, the hublike structure promotes both the core elite’s dominance and its acceptance by the peripheral elites. The core elite is, by definition, more resource rich and powerful than any one peripheral elite. Other things being equal, peripheral elites can challenge the dominance of the core elite only if two or more of them band together. Empire addresses this threat in simple structural terms.
Its own theoretical domain) but the exceptions to it. Such a denouement would force us to abandon a structural approach for one that is more agency oriented, choice centered, and intentionalist. 9 But as agency, choice, and intention have their own well-nigh fatal flaws, we would be back to our starting point. If so, treating parabolas as the norm and trying to explain decline in structural terms may be, once again, less bad than the alternative; in any case, it certainly seems to entail the construction of fewer face-saving epicycles.